Notion Research Pipeline Template

Many researchers and academics use a scholarly pipeline to track their scholarly products. I personally love using Notion for this, since it allows me to house many pieces of information in one place. I’ve also created a dashboard that I find visually appealing, which makes it all the more satisfying to move a project from one stage to another. 

I use Notion to track my scholarly projects, primarily in the form of a table that displays all of my projects, both published and in progress. This lets me have a bird’s eye overview of the different papers I’m working on at any given time. Once I move a paper to the submission stage, I can look to projects earlier in the pipeline to plan where to turn my focus next. I also use Notion to track whether I’m the lead on a paper and what journal is being targeted for submission.

One of the benefits of Notion is that it uses relational databases, which means that you can store and link other blocks of information within a given page. For my scholarly pipeline, that means that I can include a page for each paper or project, where I can store notes on the paper’s progress, where the paper has already been submitted, and potential journals to target for submission if our top choice doesn’t work out. I’ve also linked my Notion account to my Google account, which means that I can even include a link to the manuscript draft in Google Docs.